Chapter 138 - The Final Test (2)

While all this was going on, Asil, who was about to make a decision about what to do, caught a sudden radiance from the right in his eyes. This glow was too shadowy for a normal person to see under normal circumstances unless someone was paying attention. But Asil's senses had reached a much higher level than those of his own level, due to Sirius' efforts and the purple liquid he drank in the Chaka Tribe. Therefore, even if he didn't pay much attention, he saw the radiance coming from the right and quickly turned his gaze towards it.

As soon as he saw the cause of the brilliance, there was an immediate surprise and doubt, but in the blink of an eye, he suppressed them and rushed towards the black-haired youth next to him. During his movement, he stretched his left hand to the back. Then he punched forward with all his might. The black-haired youth targeted by this punch instantly gathered his profound energy into his hands due to Noble's sudden move and slammed his fist towards Asil's stomach to launch a counterattack.

Seeing what the black-haired youth had done, Asil grit his teeth and let his blow hit him, continuing the advance of his own fist without slowing down.

"Ugh." There was no reaction from Asil when the black-haired youth's fist hit Asil's stomach. But immediately after this blow, he missed a groaning sound from his mouth. The eyes of the black-haired teenager widened when he heard this moaning sound. It wasn't because he felt like he had hit a solid rock when he punched Asil in the stomach. The main reason for this was that right after Asil's fist had passed by his head, a crashing sound occurred behind his head, and this sound was accompanied by a groaning sound from Asil! After these sounds, black haired young man ignored Asil, who had just punched him, and turned his head and looked behind him. And he finally saw the sword, which came to Asil's fist and cut a cut of about half a centimeter. The moment the black haired youth saw this, he finally understood what was going on.

The reason why Asil felt astonished and suspicious at first was that when he turned his gaze, he saw the young man in the red dress coming from the right with the sword in his hand to attack them. Since no one thought that an attack from other groups would come, they did not take any precautions against it. Naturally, this youth's attack, who was about to attack them with his sword, would cause great damage.

The situation would have been much easier if the young man in the red dress had attacked himself. Because if that were the case, all he had to do would be to retaliate against the person who attacked him. However, since the young man in the red dress was attacking the black-haired youth, he had to make such a move and save his life despite the possibility that the young man in black might attack him. Fortunately, his body's endurance had increased considerably during his stay in the Chaka Tribe. Otherwise, the sword blow to his hand after being punched in the stomach would have done much more damage than a half centimeter cut.

Understanding the events, the black-haired teenager transferred all his strength to his fist. And he threw his fist mercilessly at the young man in the red dress. But before his fist could hit him, the young man in the red suit jumped back and landed a few meters. After he landed on the ground, he looked at Asil and the black haired youth for a few seconds, and then headed towards other groups. After he left, the young man in black immediately apologized to Asil. And he gave the healing ointment he had extracted from his own Spatial Ring to Asil to apply on his hand.

Time passed, and the minute was over before Asil took another attack. As soon as the time was up, the old man declared that the time was up: "Young people, you can stop now, your time is up. Now, if you'll excuse me, I will explain the result of the test."

With the old man's speech, the test takers stopped their movements and began to listen to him. The old man sighed lightly: "First of all, I'm going to ask some of you to change places. First of all, those who attacked their teammates during the test period should come forward."

After the old man's word, the people he wanted quickly came forward. After they came forward, the old man continued to talk. "Now, those among you who attacked your teammates on their own, of their own accord, gather on the left. If there are any among you who retaliate against those who attacked you because your teammates attacked you, they should also gather on the right."

The young men who had stepped forward lined up as the old man wanted. After they had settled down, the old man turned his gaze to those who did not come forward and then called out to them: "You young people who stayed behind. And now I'm going to ask you for something. If there is someone among you who did not attack anyone during the test, please come forward and come a little closer to me. Those who attack people from other teams should go backwards."

After the old man's words, the crowd split into five different groups, all in different places. After all the groups had taken their places, the old man looked first at the crowd of those on the left who had attempted to attack during the test: "Young at the front. Can you tell me why you attacked your teammates?"

The young man, to whom the old man had asked, promptly replied: "Senior Solomon. You told us we were going to fight with our own teammates. So I attacked the people who were on my team to pass the test."

After hearing the young man's answer, the old man took a deep breath and replied with a wise expression: "I'm sorry, but there is another point where you are wrong. I told you that you will indeed fight with your teammates. However, when I said this, I did not say that those who attack their teammates will pass the test. I just told you how to get eliminated. I haven't given you the slightest information about how to pass the test. The fact that you think that you will pass the test by attacking your teammates is entirely your assumption."

After the old man's words, many who had not paid attention to this point before realized that he had not really said what it took to pass the test.

Taking a moment for them to realize this, the old man continued, looking at the crowd on the left: "Everyone here has a purpose. Just as your cause is important, theirs is just as important to them. However, people sometimes cannot achieve their own goals alone. That's where the team spirit comes in. In a team created, apart from a common purpose, a bond is formed that supports the realization of your own purpose. But during the test, you put your own personal interests first and tried to get rid of the others. Tell me, is it better to kill the enemy commander and gain all the fame yourself at the cost of sacrificing your teammates in a battle? Or to fight together and divide the fame? I think you're smart enough to understand the answer to this. You're all eliminated, you can leave here."

After the old man's words, the young man who had answered his question at first, suddenly blazed with anger when he learned that he had been eliminated: "We really fought to achieve our goal! However, we have now proven that we are much stronger than those who lie on the ground or the losers who do not attack anyone because they are afraid to fight! In that case, how do we get eliminated and not them? I demand an explanation from you!"

The old man squinted his eyes slightly, and anger appeared on his face for the first time since the tests began: "I can understand your demand for an explanation. I can even understand why you want it in such a smug way because of your upbringing. But I won't let you humiliate those who don't hurt their teammates!" The old man flicked his right hand slightly, and as soon as he did so, the young man who spoke in anger, flew backwards with a miserable cry, somersaulted about twenty meters in the air, and then fell hard to the ground.

"People lying on the ground right now and people who don't fight with their teammates are losers, right? If they're losers, those who relentlessly sacrifice their teammates for their own goals aren't even losers! If anyone insults them again, I won't be so light as to break just a few bones!"